Characterizing U.S. national security adviser John Bolton as a human “landmine,” a South Korean lawmaker has reportedly joined others who have made clear their belief that Bolton is the true culprit behind faltering diplomatic efforts ahead of a planned meeting between President Donald Trump and North Korean leader Kim Jong-un next month.
“There are several land mines on the way to the summit between North Korea and the U.S. One of those land mines just exploded: John Bolton.”
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“There are several landmines on the way to the summit between North Korea and the U.S.,” South Korean lawmaker Chung Dong-young told a Seoul-based radio show, according to the Washington Post. “One of those landmines just exploded: John Bolton.”
In a Facebook post last week, Woo Sang-ho—a lawmaker in South Korean President Moon Jae-in’s Democratic Party—expressed a similar view, highlighting Bolton’s “preposterous” invocation of the “Libya model” as a possible guide for America’s approach to nuclear talks with North Korea.
The South Korean lawmakers’ comments on Bolton come as Moon is set to meet with Trump at the White House on Tuesday to help “shore up plans for a U.S.-North Korea summit that seem to be on shaky ground.”
As Common Dreams reported, North Korea has condemned Bolton and his “Libya model” remarks last week as a “sinister” regime change threat in a statement last week.
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